Configuration Guide

Configuration guide for the nrdpd daemon and libnrdpd.

Configuration Files

The default locations for the nrdpd files vary depending on platform.

Windows

The configuration files on the Windows platform will be installed in the same location as the executables.

# Base configuration file
C:\Program Files\Python38\Scripts\config.ini

# Additional configuration files
c:\Program Files\Python38\Scripts\conf.d\*.ini

Posix

The configuration files on Posix platforms (Linux, *BSD, Mac OS) will be installed in /etc/nrdpd.

# Base configuration file
/etc/nrdpd/config.ini

# Additional configuration files
/etc/nrdpd/conf.d/*.ini

Configuring nrdpd as a service

In order to work as designed nrdpd needs to be installed as a service on your platform. The gist of it is to run nrdpd as a background process, so any method you have of doing that should be valid.

Listed below are just a few possibilities.

Linux

rc.local

Adding the following line to /etc/rc.local should start nrdpd safely in the background.

/usr/bin/nrdpd </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 &

In this case make sure you have the trailing & otherwise your system will hang on boot at that point.

systemd

Creaet a systmed file named /lib/systemd/system/nrdpd.service with the following contents:

[Unit]
Description=Nagios Remote Data Processing Daemon
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
# the specific user that our service will run as
User=root
Group=root
RuntimeDirectory=nrdpd
PidFile=/run/nrdpd.pid
ExecStart=/usr/bin/nrdpd
ExecReload=/bin/kill -s TERM $MAINPID
KillMode=mixed
TimeoutStopSec=5

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Windows

To install nrdpd as a service in windows it is recommended that you use a service manager such as NSSM.

Installing nrdbd as a service with nssm
nssm install nrdbd "C:\Program Files\Python38\Scripts\nrdbd.exe"
nssm start nrdbd